DETAILS
- Artist
- Perugino
- Date
- 1471
- Medium
- Black chalk; Squared in black chalk; eyes, nose, ears, mouth retouched with pen and brown ink.
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 8 7/8 x 5 15/16 in. (22.6 x 15.1 cm)
- Collection
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
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